Between stuff like this and Crichton's Rising Sun (not even fifty years after the internment camps), I'm amazed that Japanese people could stand to live in this country in the 80s and 90s.

Good point; you got me. I was trying to think of a way to say "Christian" movies without excluding The Prince of Egypt, which on its face approaches its subject matter from more of a Jewish standpoint (even though Dreamworks was obviously counting on attracting a huge Christian audience at the same time). My point is,…

Is that 3-D adaptation of Paradise Lost a joke? Please, please tell me it's a joke.

Agreed to this. It's a shame that it got such a lukewarm reception from its intended audience (Christians and Jews). It pretty much taught studios that there's no money to be made from artistically-minded religious movies that don't shamelessly pander to ultra-conservative interests. Notwithstanding outliers like The…

We Need to Talk about Kevin looks like it'll be an overwrought, Bad Seed-like pulpy piece of crap trying way too hard to be "serious" and "important." Which is to say, it'll be an extremely faithful adaptation of the book.

I really, really wanted to see this when it was at CIFF last year, but the scheduling didn't work out. Is it playing at any theaters in the Chicago area right now?

He was going to plead guilty to the charges in a court of law and has publicly admitted doing it (hell, he admits doing it in the news report on this very page). If you don't believe that constitutes 100% certainty, then I can't wait to hear what you think about the moon landing, Elvis's death, and 9/11.

You definitely hinted that people are hypocrites if they respect any of Polanski's contemporaries because, who knows, maybe Martin Scorsese raped a few eighth-graders back in the 70s. Which is still a pretty stupid thing to say.

I think it's great that he chose to be the bigger man and extend an olive branch to Ms. Reimer. A real class act, this guy.

I try not to get all rage-y whenever a news story about Polanski comes up, but I always fail miserably once there's a mention of all the adulation he receives. Seriously, a ten-minute ovation? The guy didn't beat terminal cancer, he just avoided (justly deserved) prison time.

He looks like that all the time, though. I've never seen a photo of him where he doesn't have that weird, nonplussed smirk/sneer thing going on. It's like a physical deformity.

Nobody. I just think I'd miss being berated by strangers over the Internet, is all.

Agreed on the cinematography. The final vignette is absolutely luscious; it made me want to leave everything behind and go live in a small country village.

Tell you what, if we come back in the spring and everyone's murdered, I owe you a Coke.

You can just purchase the kits online. The only trick is getting together a large group of friends who are willing to act a little ridiculous when they get in-character. Unless everyone commits, it can be kinda lame.

I watched a few episodes of Parks and Recreation, then finished rewatching Breaking Bad season 1 with the girlfriend. My favorite part was watching her reaction to the cold open for "Crazy Handful of Nothin'," mostly because it reminded me of what it was like to see that for the first time. What a great show.

I'm a fan of Bergman's "The Virgin Spring" for how it throws Christianity and the worst humanity has to offer into the same film and lets them duke it out.

@Flaubert Cooper: Wow, it's almost as if Christianity comprises a broad range of unique individuals instead of being a faceless, monolithic collective!

"Speaking as a former evangelical Christian, I would say that it's like
Batman and the Joker. (Tying together your points about faith and
superheroes!) Christians brought this upon themselves. Not all of them,
mind… but even the nice, meek ones are complicit in letting the
in-your-face ones be the off-putting…

Now now, I think both wacko Christians *and* self-righteous atheists share plenty of blame for ruining the USA. Let's not turn this into a "You're destroying the world!" "No, *you're* destroying the world!" pissing contest.